Narrow-sense heritability is defined as:

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b. the total additive genetic variation divided by the total phenotypic variation.
c. the total dominance genetic variation divided by the total phenotypic varia-tion.
d. the total additive genetic variation divided by the total dominance variation.
e. the total epistatic genetic variation divided by the total dominance variation.


B

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